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  • Restaurants: Bistro Latin and Le Passage; Les Deux Garcons for people watching and cafe; Le Grillon for good salads and lunch.

    Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • The brave Grillon was the only one who ventured to visit me, at the hazard of incurring disgrace.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • A little lower on the staircase there are pictures you do not look at now, likenesses of men not very young, who had done something that made others like to meet them and who dined together at the Grillon Club.

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • On Thursday the 14th the Chairman requested that General Grillon, who had just been appointed a member of the Committee, accompany him so as to have a second witness.

    A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

  • General Grillon, who was present at the trials of the 14th, and who saw the report relative to what happened during that day, made the following observations in writing, which are reproduced herewith in quotation marks.

    A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

  • General Grillon, a certain Lieutenant Binet, and two civilians named respectively Sarrau and Leaute, attended for the purpose of giving the machine an official trial, over which the great controversy regarding

    A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

  • Another more obvious and more offensive parallel existed between the popular party in the city, with the Whig sheriffs at their head, and that of the Echevins, or sheriffs of Paris, violent demagogues and adherents to the League, and who, in the play, are treated with great contumely by Grillon and the royal guards.

    The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

  • How King Henri III. did not invite Grillon to Breakfast, and how

    The Forty-Five Guardsmen Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Cloridan next came to the unlucky Grillon, whose head lay softly on his pillow.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Cloridan next came to the unlucky Grillon, whose head lay softly on his pillow.

    Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831

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